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Live Chat software can help you to increase online sales conversions and customer service productivity - if you use it correctly. To maximize your live chat ROI it's important to select the right live chat vendor. This PDF provides some essential tips that you should consider in making the best selection.

Did you know that those who respond to a proactive online chat invitation are 6 times more likely to buy than the average website visitor? Download this paper for practical advice on using proactive chat to increase sales online sales and customer satisfaction.

Businesses must become agile and provide differentiated service as customer demands and expectations change. Moving beyond simple phone transactions, customers are taking matters into their own hands and turning to their peers, the web and social media to find answers. Contact centers play a major role in determining the customer’s perception of a company. Often seen as brand ambassadors, agents are the main interaction point for customers. It is therefore critical that they deliver personalized communications in the channels that customers prefer. Businesses should use cloud technology to add multichannel tools and support growing demand for chat, social, SMS and video.

To successfully meet customer demands for more immediate, personalized attention, companies are leveraging new technologies that go beyond traditional voice and email. By implementing such channels as live chat, social media, mobile apps, SMS/text messages, self-help solutions, and more, companies can now be ready wherever and however the customer wants.
The following report, sponsored by Zendesk, is based on an online survey of 1,044 U.S. consumers who have received online or phone customer service. The research goal was to better understand present customer expectations and to quantify the impact of customer service on business results. Questions were asked about past experiences with customer service, as well as preferences and opinions. Certain questions were repeated from a similar 2013 survey to enable trend analysis.

LivePerson’s forced migration to the LiveEngage platform has businesses like yours re-examining their live chat options. Given the painful relationship they’ve endured for years with LivePerson, many customers are wary, and they want to make sure that they make the right move. BoldChat is working with a number of former LivePerson customers who came to us looking for a true partner – one that not only wants to earn their business, but to continue earning it every day. What they’re getting in return is much more.

Based on research with more than three hundred companies, the report takes a close look at how live chat is used and measured in support settings, how organisations use live chat to engage with prospects and customers. Read on to learn more.

The pace of innovation for collaboration and unified communications (UC) technologies has been nothing short of incredible during the past few years. IT teams are now able to deliver consistent, simple and high-
quality experiences with voice, video, messaging and chat from any smartphone, tablet, laptop or conference room system. Users can move seamlessly and securely from one device to the next, escalate from one
communication mode to another and share content—all while retaining the context of the meeting or discussion.

Live chat implementation can simultaneously help your business cut support costs and boost online conversions. If you've started investigating solutions then you also know there are a confusing number of choices available. This helpful guide features the responses to ten key questions that will help you identify the right product for your business.

A basic chatbot isn’t that hard to build. In JavaScript, write a public REST endpoint to connect a Facebook page to some chat logic (botly is a popular option) and deploy the whole thing to run on a cloud platform.
Zoom out to the bigger picture, though, and you see that Facebook is just one channel. If you use Skype, Slack, Kik, and digital voice assistants, you’ll have to build six or eight of these endpoints straight away. And chatbots are being asked to handle ever more complex responses, so you better build on a platform of machine learning and natural language processing to keep up.
That’s why the question enterprise developers should be asking is not “Which chatbot service do I start with?” but “Which platform will let me crank out a chatbot today and also support multiple channels and integrate with back-end systems as these chatbots take off?”

Customer support is predicated on the instances when customers can’t solve their problem or get answers to their question(s) on their own. In some of those cases, such as phone calls or live chats, it can be difficult for agents to identify and resolve the issue without additional visual assistance.
With co-browse, agents can see what the visitor sees, provide guided assistance by highlighting items or filling out forms on a visitor’s behalf. Sensitive fields like social security numbers and passwords can be blocked from the agent’s view so private information remains just that, private. Bold360’s co-browse allows agents to follow visitors behind secure fields i.e. signing into their account – providing an extra level of support to customers.

As a B2B marketer, the process of nurturing and generating new leads is always tricky business. Chasing high quality and relevant leads requires a considerable amount of time, energy and resources to be invested into email marketing campaigns, social media management and educational content such as blogs, whitepapers and eBooks. While live chat support has been around for about a decade, only in recent years and especially in the age of the smartphone, are B2B companies capitalizing on it as a channel to generate and nurture leads.

Healthcare organizations are integrating intelligent virtual assistants to enhance online experience and reduce costs. This guide overviews the capabilities and benefits of using virtual assistants to engage, optimize, and complement existing service channels.

Live online chat is proving to be a successful way to fulfill consumers’ desire to connect with companies. In the Guided Economy, customers expect chat to be consistently easy and effective at answering their questions and resolving their issues.
It may seem hard to provide a consistent experience because each chat engagement poses a unique question on a unique subject from a unique customer. But by focusing on how best to engage with customers via chat, this channel can become one of your most powerful sales tools.